Swindon looks to put its unique modern art collection in the ark. Swindon may be landlocked, but the Council and the Trustees of the arts in the town are looking for funding to build a magnificent ark-like structure to house its unique modern art collection. Notes on the collection: Swindon Museum holds one of the […]
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An innovative £25 million power plant, which turns household rubbish into ‘green’ gas, will be built on the South Marston Industrial Estate in Swindon. The new facility, a world first, will be built next to a pilot facility run by Advanced Plasma Power. Chief executive Rolf Stein explained that having demonstrated the technology in its
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Where once the sounds of heavy industry clattered and banged, on Friday the Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 played by soloist Daniel Lebhardt echoed round the beautifully restored Grade II railway building, that was in the heart of the former Swindon railway works, that now houses the STEAM Museum. The event was part of the
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Following close behind X-Factor’s Ben Haenow Jay James took to the stage to entertain the crowds that had gathered after the lantern Parade through the town. Full Gallery of Parade and gig:
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Coronation Street star Ryan Thomas turns on Swindon Lights, with a little help from: Phoebe Maddison, Swindon Dance Urban Youth Academy, The Wyvern Panto’s Ugly Sisters, The Rock Choir and Ben Haenow, the X Factor finalist. Full Gallery:
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Swindon’s New College showed off some 1940ies fashion on the Platform at Steam Museum. Gallery of Images:
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Former X Factor star Jahméne Douglas launches his latest album ‘Unfathomable Phantasmagoria’ at the Asda store in North Swindon where he used to work. Signing autographs and meeting some of the ladies he used to work with before he hit the big time on X Factor. Mum Mandy Thomas was in the queue to get
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As the pantomime season approaches we see loads of production launches. This week we have had the Wyvern Theatre launch Cinderella with Ryan Thomas and I have just put my passport away from a trip over the frontier to Oxford, for the launch of the New Theatre’s Christmas production of the classic Rocky Horror Show.
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Emotional double Olympic silver medalist Jazz Carling returned to the Link Centre pool where her swimming career started, and was met by a guard of honour as the latest Tigersharks lined the way to the pool, and applauded as she arrived. She showed off her medals to the young swimmers before giving a series of
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The mighty United States Air Force B1 (Lancer) bombers made a noisy return to the West Country as a staging post for exercises over the Czech Republic. The NATO exercise is to get crews from different countries working together in a battlefield scenario, and involves a five hour round trip from the long Fairford runway.
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